Creating an Organizational Replication Policy

An enterprise can use an organization's management account to configure organizational replication policies for all the member accounts in the organization. All member accounts in the organization can use the created organizational replication policies.

This section describes how to create an organizational replication policy.

Constraints

You can only apply replication policies to server backup vaults, SFS Turbo backup vaults, and hybrid cloud backup vaults.

Procedure

Log in to the CBR console.
1. Log in to the management console.
2. Click in the upper left corner and select a region.
3. Click and choose Storage > Cloud Backup and Recovery. Select a backup type from the left navigation pane.
Choose Organizational Policies in the left navigation pane and click the Organizational Replication Policies tab. In the upper right corner, click Create Organizational Policy. Select Replication for Organizational Policy Type. See Figure 1.

Figure 1 Creating an organizational policy

Set the replication policy parameters. Table 1 describes the parameters.

**Table 1** Replication policy parameters
Parameter	Description	Example Value
Organizational Policy Name	Organizational policy name A name must contain 1 to 64 characters including digits, letters, underscores (_), or hyphens (-).	org_policy
Organizational Policy Description	Description that can help the organization members to understand the usage of the policy.	/
Organizational Policy Type	Select a policy type. In this section, we select the replication policy.	Replication policy
Policy Name	Replication policy name A name must contain 1 to 64 characters including digits, letters, underscores (_), or hyphens (-).	replication_policy
Status	Whether to enable the replication policy	Only after a replication policy is enabled and applied will CBR automatically replicates the backups in the vaults and deletes expired backup replicas.
Execution Time	Execution times of the replication policy in a day Replication tasks can be scheduled at the beginning of each hour, and you can select multiple hours.	00:00, 02:00 It is recommended that replication be performed during off-peak hours or when no services are running.
Replication Frequency	Select a replication frequency. Weekly Specifies on which days of each week the replication task will be executed. You can select multiple days. Day based Specifies the interval (every 1 to 30 days) for executing the replication task.	Every day If you select day-based replication, the first replication is supposed to be executed on the day when the replication policy is created. If the execution time on the day you create the replication policy has passed, the first replication will be performed in the next replication cycle.
Retention Rule	Rule that specifies how backup replicas will be retained in the destination region Backup quantity You can set the maximum number of backup replicas to retain for each resource. The value ranges from 2 to 99999. You can also set long-term retention rules with advanced options. Long-term retention rules and quantity-based retention rules will be both applied. Day-based: 0–100 Weekly: 0–100 Monthly: 0–100 Yearly: 0–100 A resource may be replicated multiple times in a day. If day-based replication is configured, only the most recent backup replica of that day is retained. If you set Day-based to 5, the most recent backup replica of each of the last five days that have backups generated will be retained and the earliest backup replicas will be deleted automatically. If day-based, weekly, monthly, and yearly retention rules are all configured, all the rules will apply and the union set of backup replicas will be retained. For example, if Day-based is set to 5 and Weekly to 1, five backup replicas will be retained. The long-term retention rule and the quantity-based retention rule both apply. Time period You can choose to retain backup replicas for one month, three months, six months, one year, or for any desired number (2 to 99999) of days. Permanent NOTE: The system automatically deletes the earliest and expired backup replicas every other day to avoid exceeding the maximum number of backup replicas to retain or retaining any backup replica longer than the maximum retention period. There will be delays for CBR to delete expired backup replicas, but normally these delays will not be over 24 hours. The retention rules apply only to auto-generated backup replicas, but not manual ones. Manual backup replicas need to be deleted manually. After a backup replica is used to create an image, the replica will not be deleted by the retention rule.	6 months
Destination Region	Region to which backups are replicated Only the regions that support replication will be displayed. If the selected region contains only one project, you can directly select the region name. If the selected region has multiple projects, the default project of the region is preselected. You can select another project if needed.	AP-Bangkok